Hate buffering? Slash your data center costs and still run your mission-critical Linux workload in the cloud with Azure NetApp Files. Streaming media (the process of delivering or downloading digital video and/or audio content to a screen via the internet) first became available to consumers in the mid-90s. Microsoft was one of the early […]

“The industries that are spending the most – discrete manufacturing, professional services, and banking – are the ones that have come to recognize the tremendous benefits that can be gained from public cloud services. Organizations within these industries are leveraging public cloud services to quickly develop and launch 3rd Platform solutions, such as big data […]

This week on the podcast, we catch up with NetApp’s newest old employee (or is it oldest new employee?) to see what he’s been up to, how he ended up back at NetApp and what he’s working on today. Join us as we discuss a variety of Cloud Data Services including Azure NetApp Files & […]

DevOps engineers face the seemingly impossible challenge of provisioning multiple up-to-date, easily refreshable test copies of large production datasets. With continuously running test environments, short development lifecycles, and the pressure to go ever faster, engineers need a cloud-native, high-performing file system unlike any that has gone before. NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp […]

Part two of two In my last blog post, I talked about why Azure NetApp Files is offering more choice for customers for building a more robust and risk-free roadmap to the public cloud. In this post, I will explore some of the use cases I think are the most relevant for clients […]

The traditional approach to creating a copy of a live production dataset, such as a file share or a database, is to perform a backup and restore. However, this procedure produces a multitude of issues and does not scale well when you need large numbers of environments, and/or those environments need to be refreshed quickly. […]

Performing backups of a file share and getting a consistent point-in-time copy can be a huge challenge for engineers. Why? When a system remains in active use, the data in that system is likely to change during the backup operation, creating copies that are outdated from the start of the backup. This can lead to […]

High-performance shared file storage that’s scalable and highly available is crucial to delivering a data analytics platform. Cloud users need file storage that’s easy to use and has the features to support data analytics solutions, no matter which hyperscaler they use. Azure NetApp® Files and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

Part One of Two In my role here at NetApp, our team, the Global pathways team, is dedicated to enabling Digital Transformation through our eco-system of alliances and partners and developing industry-specific solutions. Our approach is from business value and business workflow perspectives first, rather than a core technology approach. In other words, we […]

Successfully establishing data lakes in the cloud opens up a world of possibilities for data analysis. Users need an easy-to-use, robust, high-performance platform with the precise feature set required to create and support data lake environments, no matter which hyperscaler they use. Azure NetApp® Files and Cloud Volumes Service are fully managed cloud storage […]

Welcome to the conclusion of our 3-part blog series, examining the major challenges of file services and the solutions that NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service offers. In part 1, we discussed compatibility and continuity. And in part 2, we looked at migration and synchronization between on-premises and cloud environments. In part 3, we’ll look at […]

Welcome back to our 3-part blog series, examining the major challenges of file services and the solutions that NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service offers. In part 1, we discussed compatibility and continuity. In part 2, we’ll look at migration and synchronization. Migration When you migrate your data to the cloud, the last thing you want to […]